3º – Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas, 2013)
At the birthday party of her 11th birthday, Angeliki, calm and silent, without anyone noticing, walks to the balcony of her apartment and plays. The film will spend 98 minutes in duration, breaking up the reasons for the girl’s suicide, revealing a dark side of that apparently perfect family. ‘Miss Violence’ is a punch in the spectator’s stomach, bringing the meanders of evil and its unfolding in the lives of several people. A pearl of Greek cinema.
2º – The Suicide Shop (Patrice Leconte, 2012)
A family completely different from anything we are used to runs a traditional store that sells the most diverse forms found for an individual to commit suicide. After generations at the head of the store, the family goes through a crisis when their youngest member seems too happy, fleeing the basic conceptions of life for them. A unique French animation, ‘The Suicide Shop’ presents a more carefree look on a subject of difficult social treatment, elevating characters and situations that end up enchanting by their always surprising resolutions.
1º – The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
We will follow the normal day to day life of a European family made up of a couple and their small daughter. The film gains its substance by bringing the empty compendium to which the family is inserted, with increasingly insensitive and dull routines, leading them to plan an extreme act. One of the most intelligent and striking films when talking about the destructive arc of a traditional contemporary society, ‘The Seventh Continent’ is a journey without returning to the human heart of the world. The most frightening thing that is made explicit in each scene is how the film never ponders possible solutions to what we are seeing. On the contrary, it only raises frightening perspectives. Watch this masterpiece by Austrian Michael Haneke, because you will never face life in the same way after it has been shown.
